Editor's note: Resource Central's summer sale for Garden In A Box kits starts Wednesday, June 18, Denver Water is offering its residential customers a limited number of $25 discounts on water-wise Garden In A Box kits.

What if I told you that you could create your own water-wise ColoradoScape — without hiring a professional landscaper or spending a lot of money? 

Well, now’s the time, as Denver Water is offering its residential customers a limited number of $25 discounts on water-wise Garden In A Box kits from its partner, the Boulder nonprofit Resource Central. 

And if you’re planning to replace between 200 and 2,000 square feet of water-intensive Kentucky bluegrass, Denver Water can help with that too. The utility is offering its residential customers a discount — up to $750 — off Resource Central’s turf replacement services. 

Also, if you’re going the DIY route and removing at least 200 square feet of your turfgrass, you can apply to the program and, if approved, use the discount to receive up to four Garden In A Box kits.  

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The late summer sale starts Wednesday, June 18, with the kits available for pickup and planting in August and September. (The spring 2025 Garden In A Box sale started March 4, with the kits available for pickup and planting in May and June.)

Check out the water-wise Garden In A Box kits from Resource Central.

Garden In A Box kits can add pops of color to your landscape using carefully selected water-wise plants that offer interest throughout the seasons, plus food and habitat to local birds, bees and insects. Denver Water has partnered with Resource Central since 2014 to offer these popular, water-wise kits. 

Kits include:

• Small “starter” plants that will grow as they become established in about three years. 
• Professionally designed perennial gardens with plant-by-number instructions. 
• Care and maintenance information. 
• Water-wise plants that will help you save at least 7,000 gallons of water over the garden’s lifetime (compared to the same area covered by Kentucky bluegrass).

Denver Water will be handing out water-wise grass seed at Garden In A Box pickup events this spring and fall. Learn more about our water-wise grass mix!  

Denver Water is also proud to offer landscape workshops throughout the year.Get details and register for our summer 2025 workshops at denverwater.org/Workshops.

The July workshop, an online webinar with partner Resource Central, will dive into compost and soil health. The August in-person workshop at Denver Water's Operations Complex will offer practical advice for water-wise landscapes with expert Eryn Murphy, the owner and founder of Restorative Landscape Design.